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Oh! I really like the geography. The first thing that occured to me when I saw the maps was that it looks a bit like a map spanning Eastern Europe to the Far East. With Kabra as India and Norhusto as the Arabian Peninsula and Chatsu as Greece, which makes the map much more 'believable' on a subliminal level.

Very nice. I like the geography as well. You wrote the program to do this map as well? Wow!
And i hope you'll show us the redrawn maps when they're done?!
And maybe (even if it is off-topic) you can tell us a little bit about your book?

Oh! I really like the geography. The first thing that occured to me when I saw the maps was that it looks a bit like a map spanning Eastern Europe to the Far East. With Kabra as India and Norhusto as the Arabian Peninsula and Chatsu as Greece, which makes the map much more 'believable' on a subliminal level.

This is something which had never occured to me before!

It certainly never occurred to me, either, probably because the scale is totally different. The area shown on the first two maps is roughly equal to Germany plus Poland; I don't know why I didn't put a scale on.

Very nice. I like the geography as well. You wrote the program to do this map as well? Wow!

Well, the program tried to generate a heightmap from a basic contour map, with variable results; I was asking about this in my introductory thread. The program also took care of the colouring and shading.

Originally Posted by Eilathen

And i hope you'll show us the redrawn maps when they're done?!

Oh yes; but they'l look very different, unless I can get my program to work sensibly. The names will be the same, but the geography is being redone.

Originally Posted by Eilathen

And maybe (even if it is off-topic) you can tell us a little bit about your book?

That depends what you want to know! It's basically just a novel in the much-maligned genre known as "fantasy".

And if you aren't packaging it for sale, could we possibly see the code you used . Actually, the reason I don't put my own software up is embarrassment at my enormous crapiness as a programmer, but given what your software has done here I don't think that would be a problem for you.